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October 3, 2013

RE: Habitare

Photos ⎮ kuvat ⎮ foto:Katja K.

ENGOne more peek at Habitare, the furniture, interior decoration and design fair organized in Helsinki on 18–22 September!

I went with Marzia and also got to help out my friend Anu at the Johtojemma stand (offering solutions for organizing all your household wires). – And I was surprised to find, here and there, an imaginary forest.

1)Shadows in Birch Forest was the main work (See the above photo) of the Trash Goes Architecture exhibition converting wood from the Pavilion built for Helsinki World Design Capital into picnic-greenhouses, garden pavilions, bridges and benches based on drafts by designers and architects. It was designed by the Chinese architect company United Design Group and carried out in the premises of Trash Factory in Finland by a group of students from the School of Form of Poznan, Poland.

2)At the Trash Design special exhibition, by curator Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom and trash designer Henrik Enbom, I liked the idea of transforming your souvenir olive oil can adorned by a blackbird to a lamp using simple hardware, treaded rods and loop hangers, as well as miscellaneous wooden parts (small photo).

3)On the other side of the exhibition center, I fell in love with the organic Aamumaa soaps made of arctic ingredients and essential oils, with an artist's view of real size hoofs or paws of forest animalsprinted on them.

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Recyclie, that's me, a foodie gone (re)cycling: This blog's all about bicycle riding, living and cooking on a shoestring, and, naturally, recycling, or "repairing, repainting, reinterpreting, reviving, redeploying or simply relishing" – to quote one of my favorite interior designers and authors, Ilse Crawford–, feminine and Finnish style, with an Italian twist. In real life, I'm a Helsinki-based interpreter and translator, as well as the author of "Reilun kaupan ruokaa ja elämää" (Perhemediat, 2009), that is, the first Finnish Fairtrade cookbook.